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FILE NAME: Philip Carey (PC) DATE: 0000 DOC#: PC047 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: BC Notes of PC Knowledge of Asbestosis AsbestAeis in Philip Carey Manufacturing Corporation -- Actual Knowledge Burton LeDoux report "Asbestosis" and the asbestos strike of 1949 -- Pierre Elliott Trudeau's book, "The Asbestos Strike", tells us (241-242) that LeDoux had previously written exposes of silicosis in Quebec, creating a scandal in 1948(274)., His investigation of the asbestos mines was written entirely about Quebec Asbestos Corp,, Ltd. a subsidiary of Carey now called Carey Canadian Hines. LeDoux*s account was printed in the newspaper De Devoir, *an indictment that filled several full pages of the newspaper", according to the Trudeau book. One would think the sole industry in the town of East Broughton would have read news stories entitled, "Asbestosis at East Broughton - A village of 3000 Suffocated by Dust", printed January 12, 1949. The book recalls that Le Devoir hardly let a day pass for the next month without adding reports and editorials on asbestosls. One of the reporters of this scene, Gerard Pelletier of Le Devoir, is the raconteur of this chapter of Trudeau's book and is, 1 believe, today an ambassador for the Canadian government or some such thing (X know his son is a reporter in Washington). Ha describes the workers of East Broughton as "preeminently the victims of asbestosls" and yet the only unionists who did not join the 5-month strike in the asbestos mines that began on february 13 19**9 (247). The account of LoDuux that I have came from an asbestos worker In too Toronto area, Eddie Cauchy (123 bioor at. w. Ant. 405? ushkawa, untanio 1F5 Canada). It includes case histories of workers disabled by asbestosls, local docs who were afraid to tell thorn so, oatiautas of how muon profit Carey lined out of the town, heavy pollution in town, commentary on the "ample and authoritative medical liter ature ... that the disease is incurable and fatal (35)I and culminates with what LeDoux calls "proof of company and government responsibility" starting in 1944 (48). This is a thorough, piercing,investigative report, and no summary can do it justice. Wheatley Report, 1944 -- According to the memo of lawyer Saoourin at the end of this report, it was prepared in 1944 and sent around to compensation officials and pulmonary experts in Quebec. This report, written by a medical director of Metropolitan x.iie, includes data on pp 2-3 that, was never published in the literature, showing that a survey of 195 asbeatoa miners in Asbestos (Johns-Kanvilx) and Xhetford Mines (a town at the center of a mining area a few miles away from Carey's East Broughton mines)had found 42 cases of asbestosis; with apparently most of those with more than 10 years of exposure showing the disease. The original data dated from 1930* I cannot say for certain that Carey saw these reports or that Carey employees were subjects of the 1930 study, ote that the report says asbestosis was compensable in Quebec, as of sometime before 1944. Asbestosis And Pulmonary Canoer -- The Saranac Lab was commissioned by the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (of which Carey was doubtless a member) to test Canadian chrysotile asbestos in mice by inhalation. By Hay 1952, this preliminary report of 14 months testing appeared, and shortly thereafter Vorwald was canned at the Lab and the study apparently halt ed. ..."there does appear to be atrend toward a greater incidence of tumors in the exposed animals than in the control animals...if the ratios of tumor incidence at the next period when W b animals are killed are similar to those for the 14-month interval, the trend which is now noted may finally be shown to be statistically significant..." (1-2) Contract Unit Compensation Claims -< Carey and other manufacturers of insulation were also in the contracting business. They bid on construction and shipyard jobs, hired insulation installers, and used their own products. In some states, when these workers became disabled with asbestosis, they had to list as defendants all the companies where they had worked. The main source of contract unit comp claims was a list supplied in dis covery by Armstrong Cork, of 16 pages of such claims starting in 1933. It turned out that Carey and other manufacturers showed up as co-defendants in these compen sation proceedings. James W. Biley Case N0? LA 183-835 insulator for ever 35 years totally disabled and award granted in 1959} Carey brought in on reapportionment request by one of the parties held liible in 1960| Carey also a party served with 6-28-61 notice "on the issue of apportionment of newly joined parties defendant and penalty for wilful failure to pay compensation, and death benefits'*. I have no record showing that Carey actually paid comp in this case, but they received numerous notices from the state Industrial Accident Commission, etc. L. Straiihorst Case 60 SB' 192 14$ -- disabled with asbestosis, age ?0. He died from stomach cancer. Carey noticed with the rest of the defendants torch "i, 3960. No copies from the original file, only my notes. Stove Oilivieh -- Base 6l `JAh 7152 Carey brought in ho the case on 3-25-62, Compromise settlement in Dacembsr 196* for asbestosis disability. Carey paid $192 as share of a compromise settlement, Anthony Cnofrio -- Unlike tha three above cases, which were from California, this was filed in Connecticut, it was referred from the first district to the third. They have a card file indicating a findings and award with I*- stipulations uatsd beptemoer 11, 1963 Philip Carey is listed aw paying $363 The woman on the other end of the phone said she'd look for the findings and award documents, and I never heard from her on that or checked back. 03-739-7512 (send me a copy of anything you get) A. Svsritt -- Cass 6$ OAK 11139 Carey breught in January 20, 196*4} petition to include Carey and other additional defendants withdrawn two days later(my notes from totlays no documents to this effect) but documents through 1966 show notices in the case being sent to Carey, y notes say the case was settled by all defendants including Carey on Coptember 12, 1966. Montreal Star Sbcpoae -- torch 20, 1975 This pair of articles shows that the Thetford lines Clinic was seeing workers with occupational disease from asbestos dust and rating them "grade A" in health. The clinic was operated since I960 by Ur. Paul Cartier, who soon after this report retired. The good Dr. told at least one worker he was in A condition and the fellow developed asbes tosis and died all within less than 2 years later. This clinic was used by Carey and several other companies, all U3-based by the way. Cancer Reports by Dr. Paul Cartier 1952-1955 -- Published report AMA Arch. Industr. Hlth. H i 206-20? (1955) presented in 1953 shows 6 oases of bronchogenic carcinoma among 60 asbestos miners with asbestosis seen at autopsy (15$). Cartier sidesteps this saying that there were also 7 cases of lung cancer among non-asbestotic miners. He doesn't say how many however, and quickly goes on to say that "therefore, the part played by the asbestotic fibro sis (in causing lung cancer) remains questionable". It would have been less confusing if he had said how many miners he had autopsied, without asbestosis, among whom the seven cases of lung cancer were found, (see next paper) Cartier, Paul -- unpublished presentation at the Seventh Saranac Symposium, 1952 This comes from the Vorwald archives, belatedly discovered (that is, they were discovered by the defendants before the plaintiff*) at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Waiter Reed Hospital, Washington. In it, Vorwald's table 5 shows a total of 53 autopsied cases from the asbestos mines around Thetford. By this time, there were 34 seen with asbestosis and four also had Caj of 19 without asbestosis, six had LCa (31*5$). So it seems that what Sartier neglects to say in his presentation that got published, is that an even greater fraction of the miners without asbestosis got LCa than with asbestosis. I would like to habe seen Cartier present his full finding for publication, roughly 15$ of the asbestotic miners dying with Ji*bgsfee8&s?and 30$ of the non-asbestotic miners dying with itj and then try to explain on that basis that asbestosis protects people from LCa. The more obvious explanation, of course, was that asbestosis caused lung cancer even in quantities insufficient to produce asbestosis. And the reason that more asbestotics didn't die from cancer was that their asbestosis killed than first. This was suggested by Linzbach and Wedler in 194-1 by the way. Dr. Cartier spends his winters in Daytona,Florida, and as far as I know he has not been deposed. The Mancuso Documents you already have, so no need to note them here. Minutes of che ijuebec Asbestos Mining Assn, are believed to be stored at their offices ir Quebec City. However, the provincial govt has intervened in helping QAltA tc keep these. dceiULento from bi'ir.g surrendered to plaintiffs in the "SA. (for .nor" i-ifo c&ll if Vcubin 215-368-3690) Paul Gillerwater has the best rollaction of contrao'** uv,it claim fiVs, some of the guyo in California hcve eertlfied copies of s^-ne the files, too. (615-691-3359' My information is incomnleto, but I have no indication that Carey was a member of Industrial Hygiene (now Health) Foundation. However, if they were in IHF, they would have received abstracts of many articles in the medical literature on asbestosis in the Industrial Hygiene Digest. IHF might tell if they were a member, and if so for how long (Pittsburgh).